Jenean Hampton

Jenean Hampton (12 May 1958-) was Lieutenant Governor of Kentucky (R) from 8 December 2015, succeeding Crit Luallen.

Biography
Jenean Hampton was born in Detroit, Michigan on 12 May 1958, and she worked in the automotive industry after graduating from high school; she proceeded to earn an Industrian Engineering degree from Wayne State University in 1985. From 1985 to 1992, she served in the US Air Force, and she served in Saudi Arabia at the time of the Gulf War. She spent nine years in the corrugated packing industry, and she later became active in her local Republican Party and in the Tea Party movement. In 2015, Republican gubernatorial candidate Matt Bevin chose Hampton as his running mate during the gubernatorial election, hoping to secure the black vote. They won, and she became Lieutenant Governor in December.